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                              %Desirability of Evil 760515

     Legalists promote human dichotomies.   They  classify
behavior  into the general categories "good"  and  "evil".
Then,   all to often they give the impression that  normal
motivation  prompts people to do evil, and fails to prompt
them  to  do  good.   Thus arises the  necessity  for  the
legalists'  supply of rules, laws,  policies,  judgements,
and  punishments.   People should do the  good  that  they
don't  want to do,  and should be helped in  avoiding  the
evil they want to  do.    Legalists  seem  to regard human
motivations  as being inherently defective.    Thus  human
motivation  must be replaced with systematic programs  for
proper   behavior---available   for  a  price   from   the
legalists.   The price is the loss of human integrity  and
subjective earnestness.

     Perhaps it would be helpful to examine the origins of
the categories "good" and "evil"  and examine the roots of
the  assignment  of behaviors to those  categories.    How
biased are those who make the judgements?   What was their
childhood   like?   How  provincial  are  they  in   their
emotional, intellectual, and spiritual life?  What special
interests are served by their actions?  In what collusions
do  they participate?   Are their decisions reached in  an
open,  democratic manner; or in an elitist,  covert manner
with  the issues never being publicly defined?   Are  only
experts  permitted to testify---experts who share the same
biases?     How  do  experts  regard  those  who  are   of
contrasting  opinions?   Are their relationships those  of
community, or of alienation?

     The  theory  that evil is more  desirable  than  good
should  be put to the test---by letting normal people know
the natural  consequences  of various courses  of  action,
free  choose which course of action that they most desire,
and then   publicly   share   their   objective/subjective
perceptions  of the wisdom of their choices.   In this way
it  might be possible to determine whether or not evil  is
more desirable than good.   Absent such evidence, there is
no unbiased ground for a defensible conclusion.

                                                                                                                               
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